The Hibbert Lectures are an annual series of non-sectarian lectures on theological issues. They are sponsored by the

Hibbert Trust The Hibbert Trust was founded by Robert Hibbert (1769–1849) and originally designated the Anti-Trinitarian Fund. It came into operation in 1853, awarded scholarships and fellowships, supports the Hibbert Lectures, and maintained (from 1894) a ch ...

, which was founded in 1847 by the

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Robert Hibbert with a goal to uphold "the unfettered exercise of private judgement in matters of religion.". In recent years the lectures have been broadcast by the

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Lecturers (incomplete list)

1878-1894 (First Series)

*1878

Max Müller Friedrich Max Müller (; 6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic disciplines of India ...

''On the Religions of India'' (inaugural) *1879

Peter le Page Renouf Sir Peter le Page Renouf (23 August 1822 – 14 October 1897) was a British professor, Egyptologist, and museum director, best known for his translation of ''The Book of the Dead''. Personal life Renouf was born in Guernsey on the Channel Is ...

'' The Religion of the Egyptians'' *1880

Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote infl ...

''Lectures on the Influence of the Institutions, Thought And Culture of Rome on Christianity And the Development of the Catholic Church'' *1881 T. W. Rhys Davids ''Indian Buddhism'' *1882

Abraham Kuenen Abraham Kuenen (16 September 1828 – 10 December 1891) was a Dutch Protestant theologian. Kuenen was born in Haarlem, the son of an apothecary. On his father's death it became necessary for him to leave school and take a humble place in the bus ...

''National Religions and Universal Religion'' *1883 Charles Beard ''The Reformation of the Sixteenth Century in its Relation to Modern Thought and Knowledge'' *1884 Albert Reville '' The Native Religions of Mexico and Peru'' *1885

Otto Pfleiderer Otto Pfleiderer (1 September 1839 – 18 July 1908) was a German Protestant theologian. Through his writings and his lectures, he became known as one of the most influential representatives of liberal theology. Biography Pfleiderer was born at ...

''The Influence of the Apostle Paul on the Development of Christianity'' *1886

John Rhys John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

'' Lectures on the origin and growth of religion as illustrated by Celtic heathendom'' *1887

Archibald Sayce The Rev. Archibald Henry Sayce (25 September 18454 February 1933) was a pioneer British Assyriologist and linguist, who held a chair as Professor of Assyriology at the University of Oxford from 1891 to 1919. He was able to write in at least twe ...

''Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Babylonians'' *1888 Edwin Hatch ''Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages Upon the Christian Church'' *1891 Eugene, Count Goblet D'Alviella ''Lectures on the Origin and Growth of the Concept of God, as Illustrated by Anthropology and History'' ''...so well known as a freethinker that when he was invited the Hibbert Lectures at Oxford, the authorities of Balliol College refused the use of a room for the purpose

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Claude Montefiore Claude Joseph Goldsmid Montefiore, also Goldsmid–Montefiore or just Goldsmid Montefiore (1858–1938) was the intellectual founder of Anglo- Liberal Judaism and the founding president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, a schol ...

''The Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Religion of the Ancient Hebrews'' *1893

Charles Barnes Upton Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was ...

''Lectures on the bases of religious belief'' *1894 James Drummond ''Via, Veritas, Vita; Christianity in its most simple and intelligible form''

1900-1949

*1906

Franz Cumont __NOTOC__ Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont (3 January 1868 in Aalst, Belgium – 20 August 1947 in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre near Brussels) was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated ...

(on Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism) *1908

William James William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher, historian, and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James is considered to be a leading thinker of the la ...

''A Pluralistic Universe'' *1911

Lewis Richard Farnell Lewis Richard Farnell FBA (1856–1934) was a classical scholar and Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor from 1920 to 1923. George Stanley Farnell George Stanley Farnell, MA Oxon. (1861–95), was a classical scholar, educato ...

''The Higher Aspects of Greek Religion'' *1912

James Hope Moulton The Reverend James Hope Moulton (11 October 1863 – 9 April 1917) was a British non-conformist divine. He was also a philologist and made a special study of Zoroastrianism. Biography His family had a strong Methodist background. His father was ...

''Early Zoroastrianism'' *1913

Josiah Royce Josiah Royce (; November 20, 1855 – September 14, 1916) was an American objective idealist philosopher and the founder of American idealism. His philosophical ideas included his version of personalism, defense of absolutism, idealism and his ...

''The Problem of Christianity''
online edition (volume one)
*1913

David Samuel Margoliouth David Samuel Margoliouth, FBA (; 17 October 1858, in London – 22 March 1940, in London) was an English orientalist. He was briefly active as a priest in the Church of England. He was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford ...

''The Early Development of Mohammedanism'' *1914

Herbert A. Giles Herbert Allen Giles (, 8 December 184513 February 1935) was a British diplomat and sinologist who was the professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge for 35 years. Giles was educated at Charterhouse School before becoming a British dip ...

''Confucianism and Its Rivals'' *1916

Louis de La Vallée-Poussin Louis Étienne Joseph Marie de La Vallée-Poussin (1 January 1869 – 18 February 1938) was a Belgian Indologist and scholar of Buddhist Studies. Biography La Vallée-Poussin was born in Liège, where he received his early education. He studi ...

''The Way to Nirvána: Ancient Buddhism as a Discipline of Salvation'' *1916 Philip H. Wicksteed ''The reactions between dogma & philosophy illustrated from the works of S. Thomas Aquinas'' *1919 Joseph Estlin Carpenter ''Theism in Medieval India'' *1920

William Ralph Inge William Ralph Inge () (6 June 1860 – 26 February 1954) was an English author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and dean of St Paul's Cathedral, which provided the appellation by which he was widely known, Dean Inge. He ...

"The State, Visible and Invisible" *1921

James Moffatt James Moffatt (4 July 1870, Glasgow – 27 June 1944, New York City) was a Scottish theologian and graduate of the University of Glasgow. Moffatt trained at the Free Church College, Glasgow, and was a practising minister at the United Free Chu ...

''The Approach to the New Testament'' *1922 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks ''Religious Perplexities'' *1923 Felix Adler ''The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal'' *1924 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks ''Human consciousness towards God'' *1925

Francis Greenwood Peabody Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936) was an American Unitarian minister and theology professor at Harvard University. Peabody was born on December 4, 1847, in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1869. When a juni ...

*1929

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (; 5 September 1888 – 17 April 1975), natively Radhakrishnayya, was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He served as the 2nd President of India from 1962 to 1967. He also 1st Vice President of India from 1952 ...

''An Idealist View of Life'' *1930

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

''The Religion of Man'' *1931

George Dawes Hicks George Dawes Hicks FBA (14 September 1862 – 16 February 1941) was a British philosopher who was the first professor of moral philosophy at University College, London from 1904 until 1928 and professor emeritus thereafter until his death. B ...

''The Philosophical Bases of Theism'' *1932

Robert Seymour Conway Robert Seymour Conway, FBA (1864–1933) was a British classical scholar and comparative philologist. Born in Stoke Newington, he was the elder brother of Katharine St John Conway. He was Hulme Professor of Latin Literature, at Victoria Univer ...

''Ancient Italy and Modern Religion'' *1933 Lawrence Pearsall Jacks ''The Revolt Against Mechanism'' *1934

Albert Schweitzer Ludwig Philipp Albert Schweitzer (; 14 January 1875 – 4 September 1965) was an Alsatian-German/French polymath. He was a theologian, organist, musicologist, writer, humanitarian, philosopher, and physician. A Lutheran minister, Schwei ...

''Religion in Modern Civilization'' *1936

William Ernest Hocking William Ernest Hocking (August 10, 1873 – June 12, 1966) was an American idealist philosopher at Harvard University. He continued the work of his philosophical teacher Josiah Royce (the founder of American idealism) in revising idealism to integ ...

''Living Religions and a World Faith'' *1937

Gilbert Murray George Gilbert Aimé Murray (2 January 1866 – 20 May 1957) was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greec ...

''Liberality and Civilisation''

1950-1999

*1959

Basil Willey Basil Willey, (25 July 1897 – 3 September 1978) was British scholar of English literature and intellectual history. Having served in the British Army during the First World War, he rose to become King Edward VII Professor of English Literature ...

''Darwin And Butler: Two Versions of Evolution'' *1963

James Luther Adams James Luther Adams (1901–1994), an American professor at Harvard Divinity School, Andover Newton Theological School, and Meadville Lombard Theological School, and a Unitarian parish minister, was the most influential theologian among American U ...

*1964 Geoffrey Nuttall, Roger Thomas,

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, Harry Lismer Short, ''The Beginnings of Nonconformity'' *1965 Frederick Hadaway Hilliard ''Christianity in education'' *1977

Jonathon Porritt Sir Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE (born 6 July 1950) is a British environmentalist and writer. He is known for his advocacy of the Green Party of England and Wales. Porritt frequently contributes to magazines, newspapers and books ...

, ''Bringing Religion Down to Earth'' *1979 Rustum Roy ''Experimenting with Truth'' *1989

Bede Griffiths Bede Griffiths OSB Cam (17 December 1906 – 13 May 1993), born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known by the end of his life as Swami Dayananda ("bliss of compassion"), was a British-born priest and Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in So ...

, ''Christianity in the Light of the East''

2000-

*2003

James L. Cox James L. Cox (born 24 December 1942, Fair Oaks, AR) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and medical innovator best known for the development of the Cox maze procedure for treatment of atrial fibrillation in 1987. Early background James Co ...

''Religion without God: Methodological Agnosticism and the Future of Religious Studies'' *2005

Karen Armstrong Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and m ...

and

Khalid Hameed Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed, CBE, DL (born 1 July 1941) is the chairman of Alpha Hospital Group, and chairman and chief executive officer of the London International Hospital. Prior to this, he was the Executive Director & Chief Executive Off ...

''Spirituality and global citizenship''

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